Aett_Thorn

600 million should be able to get you a decent build, depending on the sets. That being said, using merits can go a long way to saving you some cash, if you can use them to get some of the more expensive IOs.

That being said, for farming (I'm assuming solo farming?), I'd say any primary would work except for Stone. Stone is great for survivability, but gives you a few penalties that will hurt your farming ability.

That being said, here are a few of the better farming options:

Fire/SS: Once you start slotting for some +Def set bonuses, this can really take off. The combination of Rage and a Primary that is focused more on damage than survival, and you get a great pairing for farming. Your basic strategy will be to kill things before they can even hurt you. Healing Flames should keep you topped off for health, and if you need to, Consume can refill your endurance. /SS isn't so great on AoE damage by itself (although Foot Stomp + Rage is nasty), which Fire/ helps to make up for.

Fire/Elec, Fire/Fire or Fire/KM: Same as above, except you lose Rage. However, you gain some more AoE ability, which can help if you've got a lot of minions/lieutenants around.

Shield/SS, /Elec, /Fire, or /KM: You can probably see a trend in the secondaries, here. Shield is a good farming set because it gives you protection to mostly every attack in the game with its positional defenses. Also, the aggro aura, Against All Odds, will boost your damage for each foe in melee range (which, if you're farming, will be a lot). This can help out the damage for your secondary's AoE powers. Shield/Elec also gives you two teleport attacks, which is just fun.


I would say start with one of those, but I'm sure you'll get other opinions (insert call for Dechs and his recommendation for a Dark Armor Tanker here). I'd say there's only a few sets that you need to stay away from if you're going a farming route:

1) Energy Melee: too focused on single-target damage, with a weak AoE attack.

2) Stone Armor: Rooted will slow you down going from spawn to spawn. Weaker defenses until you get to Granite, but Granite gives you -Recharge and -Damage, which isn't that helpful if you're farming.

3) Stone Melee: great single-target damage and mitigation, but again, a little weak on the AoE.


Everything else should be able to farm decently, but I think the ones I highlighted above are ahead of the curve.

Ice/KM is a very good combo right now. Not only because of the stacking -dmg, but also because /KM goes well with any primary with a damage aura.

I would also say that Ice/Elec could be very fun. Not as much synergy, but still fun and effective, especially if you're going to be farming a bit with it. All of the AoEs in /Elec make it great for taking out swarms of minions. Not so great against bosses, but still fairly good.


But, if you want to go for more damage, Ice/Fire would be the thing. Because Ice can easily reach the soft cap for S/L/E/NE, you can focus a bit more on offense, which /Fire allows you to do.

Basically, anything can go well with Ice/. Yes, Ice/ has its problems, but the secondary can help to make up for those, and you'll always have enough endurance to use your secondary, once you get to level 26-27.

Eh, let's just get Carp Armor/Carp Melee, and call it a day.

You should check out the individual AT forums. They should have a decent amount of builds that you could check out. Also, have you downloaded Mid's Hero Builder yet? If you haven't, you should. It lets you build characters outside of the game, to see how you might want to slot a given character.

Yeah, that definitely sounds like a bug to me. Gauntlet is supposed to be auto-hit in PvE against anything other than an AV or GM. However, there are two ways to go about that:

1) It just hits, with no ToHit roll required.
2) It needs to roll a ToHit roll, but then just forces it to hit, even if the ToHit roll was too low.

If they coded it as the second, which they might need to do as part of an attack, then it shouldn't affect the streakbreaker, but it could. Basically, the streakbreaker should only be affecting the main attacks, not the ToHit roll of various effects that go along with it. If this is not the case, then it's definitely a bug.

Yes

Well, the one I made last night is called "Rainbow Spryte."

I'll work on the others as I make them. Maybe I'll just make a little (no pun intended) SG with a bunch of pixies in it, of all different ATs.

Too...many...ideas! Must not create them all! Oh, who am I kidding.

14 new alts, LFT!


Thanks all!

Done!

Hey all,

I've gotten it into my head to make a fairy/pixie/sprite character, but I'm having trouble coming up with powerset choices for him/her. I was thinking of maybe going Fire/Rad Controller, and coloring the powers to look sort of like pixe dust, but I was hoping to get some other suggestions from people.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Adam